Kakijia Ippa on Spotify
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Kakijia Ippa on Spotify 〰️
Aenōṃṃan! Peace! Kapayapaan!
Art by Miguel Lorica for the Soultree EP
I am Soultree & this is my creative journey.
I am an artist, vocalist, emcee, storyteller, and creator.
Through my music and holistic work at SHHAA, Sustainable Holistic Healing Arts & Activations, I am shifting myself and the world around me.
Bio
Soultree is a Pilipinx queer, and genderfluid artist, creatrix, and connector of Waray, Pangasinan, Ilokano, and Ilonggo ancesTree and Marshallese cultural influence and upbringing. Soultree uses prayers, chants, songs, moveMeants, and co-creations to uplift unseen spirits and untold stories.
Their decade's worth of community organizing informs their arts and the way they curate and hold space centering those most vulnerable and directly impacted by state violence. Their music is genre-full drawing inspiration from their cultural islander and spiritual upbringing, Spiritual, Filipino Folk, Reggae, Classical, Pop, Jazz, Hip-Hop, and Rap.
They released three albums Soultree EP (2019), Malaginto (2020), & GEM (2022) and launched SHHAA, Sustainable Holistic Healing Arts, and Activations, Spring 2020 where they offer reiki, tarot, body work, and herbal medicine. Soultree is a founding member of the Babaelan Collective, which centers holistic healing through herbs, sounds, and cultural community gatherings.
Through performances, workshops, and community curations, Soultree applies years of political organizing and cultural consciousness raising into the music and holistic healing arts work they provide through SHHAA. As a Pilipinx person raised in the Marshall Islands, they offer 15 years of workshop experience on cultural climate change, immigrants rights, healing through voice, writing, music, and expression, sound healing, herbal medicine, and the ways energetic like reiki, tarot reading, and other modalities and practices to all communities.
soultree’s music
SHHAA
the practice behind the music
I sustain my artistry through holistic services, products, and experiences I offer and co-create with my communities. Wherever I am, I am creating Sustainable Holistic Healing Arts & Activations aka SHHAA pronounced like “siya”, the gender neutral pronoun of many languages in the Philippines.
Design by Jackie Marzan.
RECENT PERFORMANCe
Sunday Jump performance at History Filipinotown.
From venue host to farmer coop coordinator to vendor to featured artist, it was great to be at Pilipino Workers Center again performing for Sunday Jump.
Recent interview
UNDOCUFORCE VISUALIZER
OUT NOW
Slant/s Foundation
asian pacivics
I’m being featured in a new television show about Asian American and Pacific Islander artists who are using their music to create social change! This new program being launched by @theslantsfound airs on @crossingstv every Sunday starting on May 21st. My episode will air on Sunday June 25 at 7am and 5pm. To learn more, visit www.theslants.org, Crossings TV, and read the press releases below.
Photography by Patrick Burke. Direction & Design by Jackie Marzan.
